The fuel crisis is a PR victory for Hamas. The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh explains why:
Some of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s top aides were convinced that the countdown to Hamas’s collapse would begin immediately after large parts of the Gaza Strip were plunged into darkness Sunday night.
But the PA leaders were in for an unpleasant surprise.
Instead of seeing anti-Hamas demonstrators, the PA officials in the Mukata presidential compound got televised footage of children and women holding candles in the dark streets of Gaza City.
Al-Jazeera and other Arab TV networks carried live coverage of the peaceful protesters, many of whom blamed not only Israel, but the PA government and the rest of the Arab countries for their plight.
The pictures coming out of the Gaza Strip were so damning for the PA that some of its representatives accused Al-Jazeera of serving Hamas’s interests and inciting against Abbas.
